subject to a few technical corrections given below, I am happy to accept your manuscript entitled
"Evidence for a continuous decline in lower stratospheric ozone offsetting ozone layer recovery"
for publication in Atmospheric chemistry and Physics.
Myself and one of the referees have suggested to mark the final paper as a highlight article.

If I understand correctly that Figures A1 to A13 are meant to be supplementary for readers interested to see some more background information and supportive evidence, then i) place these Figures in an extra "Supplementary Material" (see author guidelines for instructions) and ii) make sure to include appropriate referencing (e.g. "additional data/evidence is given in Fig. AX in the supplementary material") in the text. Currently, all Figures are references a normal Figures. If that is your intention, then please number them in order of reference from 1 to 18 and not use the A-numbering. Also, please make sure that all figures (manuscript and supplement) are referred to in the text.

Lines 135 - 139: adding the word "Pinatubo" might make this explanation more immediately accessible. I suggest: "We remove the two year period following the Pinatubo eruption, i.e. June 1991 to May 1993, from the analysis to avoid..."

Line 141: this sentence does not seem to be correct. How about: "We do not apply any statistical tests and therefore avoid making assumptions..." ?

Line 181: the "below 22 hPa" is ambiguous when using pressure as an altitude coordinate. An easy way to correct would be "...below 25 km (22 hPa)".

Using a robust analysis, with artefact-corrected ozone data, we confirm upper stratospheric ozone is recovering following the Montreal Protocol, but that lower stratospheric ozone (50° S–50° N) has continued to decrease since 1998, and the ozone layer as a whole (60° S–60° N) may be lower today than in 1998. No change in total column ozone may be due to increasing tropospheric ozone. State-of-the-art models do not reproduce lower stratospheric ozone decreases.

Using a robust analysis, with artefact-corrected ozone data, we confirm upper stratospheric...